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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Should I buy a Cyrix processor?
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On Thu, Dec 04, 1997 at 08:08:39PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
>> I'd second that. I had a Cyrix 686 about 6 months ago, and I ended up
>> throwing it in the garbage.. I had overheating problems, strange
>> system lock-ups, etc, etc.. It might have been the motherboard, or just
>> bad settings or something - but I tried everything and it just wasn't
>> reliable. If you're going to do non-Intel x86, I think I'd recomend the AMD
>> K6 over the Cyrix CPUs.
>
> We had that same problem on Sean Eric Fagan's machine.
>
> Until we set the motherboard voltage jumper correctly.
>
> After which the problem went away.

Ah yes.  The c't article mentioned that.  I noticed yesterday that
some motherboards now claim to do auto voltage sensing, whatever that
means.

Is sef happy with his machine?  What motherboard?

Greg